The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volumen3

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Página 30 their non-attendance, All witnesses of all religions, who believe in a future state of
rewards and punishments are received, but not persons infamous in law by their
crimes, nor persons directly interested in the matter in issue ; and no counsel or ...

Página 44 But it appears to be well ascertained, that flume always consists of volatile
inflammable matter, in the act of combustion and combination, with the oxgyen of
the atmosphere. Many metallic substances are volatized by heat, and burn with a
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Página General issue , in law, is that plea which traverses and denies at once, the whole
declaration or indictment, without offering any special matter, whereby to evade it
: and it is railed the general issue, because, by im- portingan absolute and ...

Página "If then there must be something eternal, it is very obvious to reason that it must
necessarily be a cogitative being ; because it is as impossible to conceive that
bare incogitative matter should ever produce a thinking intelligent being, as that ...

Página The last has lately been opposed, but certainly without due consideration. The
limbs and body of an infant when first born are generally covered over with a
mealy mum - matter, which appears to be a feculent deposit from the amnios, or
fluid, ...

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Página 35 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews : 3 Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

Página 34 - But say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure.

Página 29 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.

Página 37 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.

Página 44 - Any person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any...